An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ASTRINGE
astringe
(verb) become constricted or compressed; “The cold substance astringes”
astringe
(verb) constrict or bind or draw together; “Lemon juice astringes the tissue in the mouth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
astringe (third-person singular simple present astringes, present participle astringing, simple past and past participle astringed)
(transitive, obsolete) To constrict, to compress
(intransitive, obsolete) To become constricted or compressed
To bind by moral or legal obligation.
Anagrams
• Tangiers, Tasering, Tigranes, angriest, angrites, angstier, ganister, gantries, granites, inert gas, ingrates, rangiest, reasting, stearing, tasering, tearings
Source: Wiktionary
As*tringe", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Astringed; p. pr. & vb. n. Astringing.] Etym: [L. astringere; ad + stringere to draw tight. Cf. Astrict, and see Strain, v. t.]
1. To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon.
2. To bind by moral or legal obligation. Wolsey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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